Long-Term Effect of Surgery in Graves’ Disease: 20 Years Experience in a Single Institution

Table 2

Postoperative thyroid function after subtotal thyroidectomy at 3 months and thyroid function distribution by amount of remnant thyroid.

Postoperative thyroid function			Remnant thyroid weight
	Subtotal thyroidectomy ( = 254)		<4.0 g		≥4.0 g and <6.0 g		≥6.0 g
			( = 73)		( = 153)		( = 28)
		%		%		%		%
Hypothyroidism	235	92.5%	69	95.8%	141	92.2%	25	89.3%	0.671
Euthyroidism	17	6.7%	3	4.2%	11	7.2%	3	10.7%
Hyperthyroidism	1	0.4%	0		1	0.7%	0